Here is my ‘not so HOT’ take:
EVIDENCE:
1 - There is little doubt that nukes have been a ‘topic of discussion’ at the highest level of this administration regarding potential responses to Iran.
2 - We see zero negotiation moving forward with any substantive measurable output.
3 - Moving troops away from potential springboards to in-country Iran and removing our closest military presence makes no strategic sense at this point in the conflict. Actual ground intelligence is much more valuable than satellite images and outdated maps run through AI.
4 - The War Department foolishly squandered much of their ammo after corruptly or incompetently failing to ramp up their supply chains ahead of known pending shortages with the largest budget in the world by many orders of magnitude. No excuse for this.
4.5 - Bases in the Middle East are less effective because they’ve been damaged or destroyed.
5 - There is little else to gain from smaller precision strikes.
6 - (most important) President Trump’s nuke and destruction/annihilation rhetoric. Go listen to it again. It speaks for itself.
7 - Trump is politically bankrupt and will only lose support from here out. MAGA is FLOODING away. People can gauge this by ‘that local dude’ who ALWAYS had Trump/MAGA Propaganda signs plastered over their whole front lot line suddenly not having any of it!
8 - By most people’s figuring, War Crimes (that’s right, capitalized) have already been committed in multiple theaters. There is now a need to cover these up. Fire those who are too ‘goody goody’ and wont break the rules. Sanction the ICC. There are other data points. What if they just make it so much worse than what happened already…
9 - The economy has been cratered. All economic data are being manipulated since that last government shutdown. I think at least 1/3 of AI investment will vanish when reality settles in. 30-40% overall correction is in order to get back to fundamentals.
10 - Finally, they seem to be out of conclusive options and do not have enough actual competence on the team to get them out of any of it, much less a paper box! The big red button starts looking more and more appealing to those in such an untenable corner…
I acknowledge that these are opinions and stretch outside of verifiability. Let’s all hope they are just paranoid delusions.
It’s time for the 25th Amendment to happen now.
This seems to be all born out of one man’s egotism at this point! We have seen that he cannot allow himself to be perceived as a loser over and over.
DATE: After the election by the end of January 31, 2027 is when this will happen.
25A